Direction, 5.

Fifthly, Take heed of having hard thoughts of God: as when they came into the wilderness the Scripture saies Deut. 1.27. They said God brought them thither be∣cause he hated them, and meant to destroy them: So ma∣ny out of the frowardness of their hearts, (and that I tremble to speak of) When God is in a gracious way, in doing good to them, and in bringing them to himself upon every difficulty they find, they are ready to say God does all this but to aggravate my sin, and because he hates me, and that my condemnation might be the more grievous, if I had never known so much, and never had such convincings of conscience, and had never pray∣ed so much, my condemnation had not been so great? this is an horrible abusing of the Grace of God, Just like those that were delivered out of Egypt, this is be∣cause God hates us (say they) and means to destroy us it is true God hath wrought upon mee more then others but it is to aggravate my condemnation: let not us have such hard thoughts of God.